Linux NewsWinux Tries to Mimic Windows While Staying Fully Linux
Ubuntu-based Winux joins the Linux ecosystem by mimicking the Windows experience, but is imitation the best path?
HarfBuzz 12.3 Released - Nice Performance Improvements To This Text Shaping Engine
HarfBuzz 12.3 was just released for ending out 2025 with some nice performance improvements to this widely-used text shaping engine. HarfBuzz in turn is used by the prominent Linux desktop environments, Java, Flutter, various game engines, and apps like Chrome and Firefox for text shaping needs with OpenType fonts and more...
How Linux helped me escape tech boredom and endless scrolling
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GitHub Takes Down Rockchip MPP Repository After FFmpeg Copyright Claim
GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository after a DMCA notice from an FFmpeg developer alleging violations of the LGPL license.
After Vizio Ruling, SFC Pushes Back And Torvalds Weighs In
The court ruled, SFC fired back, and Linus couldn’t resist weighing in. Here’s what actually happened. The post After Vizio Ruling, SFC Pushes Back And Torvalds Weighs In appeared first on FOSS Force.
QNX Introduces a Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
QNX has released a self-hosted Developer Desktop for QNX 8.0, featuring an XFCE desktop on Wayland with native compilation support.
44% Of GNOME Core Apps Are Written In C, 13% In JavaScript & 10% In Rust
GNOME developer Sophie Herold has shared some interesting end-of-year code stats for the GNOME project. The "GNOME" codebase is up to 6,692,516 lines of code at the end of 2025 with 1,611,526 lines of that being from GNOME apps. Where the data gets interesting is on the programming language breakdown in different areas...
Linux Kernel Highlights For 2025: Schedulers, Rust & Torvalds' Commentary
With the end of the year quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most-viewed Linux kernel news of 2025...
Intel Open-Source Software Setback: IWD Development Hiatus
Adding to the unfortunate engineering setbacks at Intel this year as part of cost-cutting measures, the Intel IWD software development has been on a hiatus for the past three months. Going from previously seeing monthly releases and almost constant activity to now development ceasing up with no activity in the past three months...
Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For ARM64 EFI Systems Crashing On Boot
Adding to the early headaches of Linux 6.19 with some regressions in performance and functionality were ARM64 hosts crashing on this in-development kernel version for those platforms using EFI. But a fix is now merged ahead of Linux 6.19-rc3 due out tomorrow...
FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 26, 2025
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 26, 2025 appeared first on FOSS Force.
Turntable Adds Collapsible Player Controls, End of Year Recap
A new version of Turntable, the standalone music scrobbling tool and desktop ‘now playing’ controls for Linux, is out with a couple of notable new features. Given the app is a conduit for relaying your listening habits, this update adds “wrapped year-in-review” style recap of your hither logged listening habits. Well, kinda. Turntable’s developer, Evan Paterakis, says the year-end recap feature is an ‘experiment’ so far from perfect. This is because the app doesn’t track your listening habits itself, merely relays it to your preferred service. Since “different services provide different levels of information and assets and almost none provide […]
3 ways to have more fun with a Linux PC this weekend (December 26 - 28)
That old laptop you installed Linux on will collect dust no more.
Phoenix Emerges as a Modern X Server Written From Scratch in Zig
Phoenix is a new X server written from scratch in Zig, aiming to modernize X11 without relying on Xorg code.
QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop Brings QNX 8.0 To A Wayland + Xfce Desktop
Announced earlier in December but flying under the radar until now is the initial reoease of a QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop. This is a developer environment for the QNX real-time operating system primarily used on embedded systems. With now having this developer desktop option, the hassle of cross-compilation to target QNX can be avoided...